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Seventh Grade Medieval History
"31 Panes"
A Rose Window created by the 31 students of
the Green Meadow Waldorf School Seventh Grade
A Slide Show of Student Work done in Autumn, 2003
at Green Meadow Waldorf School
For several weeks in late autumn the Seventh Grade studied the late Middle Ages. We learned a great deal about medieval times through the biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose life spanned two Crusades, the building of the first Gothic cathedrals, the development of Common Law in England and the strengthening of the rule of kings throughout Europe. We dwelt on certain subjects for some time: the many ways in which cathedrals changed the medieval world was of great interest, as were the many ways in which the Crusades brought new ideas to France. And, above all, we tried to capture something of the precision, reverence and beauty that constituted medieval art, whether in the grandeur of the stained glass windows or in the delicacy of illuminated manuscripts.
These pages have been reproduced from the main lesson books of Marielle Sweeney, Hanako Saeki, Ezra Margono, Zeynep Doganata, Sasha Kuznetsov, Rochelle Schonfeld, Spring Braccia-Beck, Mara Flannery, Ross Gardner, Maya Kotansky, Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez, Adam Holland, and Chris Chichetti.